Making higher education more affordable, one course reading at a time: Academic libraries as key advocates for open access textbooks and educational resources

K Okamoto - Public Services Quarterly, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Open access textbooks (OATs) and educational resources (OERs) are being lauded as a
viable alternative to costly print textbooks. Some academic libraries are joining the OER …

Open science practices in higher education: Discussion of survey results from research and teaching staff in Germany

T Heck, I Peters, A Mazarakis, A Scherp… - Education for …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Aspects of open science and scholarly practices are often discussed with a focus on
research and research dissemination processes. There is currently less discussion on open …

Alternate academy: Investigating the use of open educational resources by students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria

D Onaifo - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Open educational resources (OER) are increasingly used to support pedagogical initiatives
and learning needs at institutions of higher education across the globe. In this thesis, I …

[PDF][PDF] Environmental scan and assessment of OERs, MOOCs and Libraries

C Kazakoff-Lane - Chicago: Association of College and Research …, 2014 - ala.org
OER [s]... provide great opportunities for an increase in knowledge dissemination in
accordance with the educational purpose of universities. It is vitally significant and essential …

A naive bayes approach for converging learning objects with open educational resources

AS Sabitha, D Mehrotra, A Bansal… - Education and Information …, 2016 - Springer
Open educational resources (OER) are digitised material freely available to the students and
self learners. Many institutions had initiated in incorporating these OERs in their higher …

Making Education Affordable for Students: A Case Study of Implementation and Faculty Usage of an Open Educational Resources Program

J Chaudhuri - Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The high cost of course materials negatively affects students' academic progress. This case
study reviews and analyzes the implementation and usage of a library-led Open Educational …

A qualitative study on the digital preservation of OER

S Hare, M Sullivan - portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020 - muse.jhu.edu
Libraries continue to spearhead initiatives to incentivize instructors to adopt, adapt, and
create open educational resources (OER). However, these programs often do not explicitly …

Promoting the Use of Open Educational Resources by Librarians in University Libraries in Nigeria

KF Ogunbodede, B Cocodia - International Information & Library …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The study examined the roles played by librarians in promoting the use of Open Educational
Resources (OER) in their institutions in South-South and South-West geo-political zone of …

Factors influencing the development of institutional Open Educational Resource repositories in Vietnam

V Truong - 2021 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
This qualitative study focuses on understanding the development of institutional Open
Educational Resource repositories as an educational change at higher education …

The role of libraries and librarians in promoting access to and use of open educational resources in Tanzania: the case of selected public university libraries

CM Mwinyimbegu - University of Dar es Salaam Library Journal, 2019 - ajol.info
This paper examined the role of libraries and librarians in promoting access to and use of
Open Educational Resources (OERs) in selected Tanzanian public university libraries …